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Aldo Moro affair a watershed for the West and for the Church
Posted on Mar 17, 2008 04:32am CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
New York
Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of a watershed event, both for contemporary Western politics and for the Catholic church: the kidnapping of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the left-wing terrorist group the Red Brigades, followed by Moro’s execution on May 9, 1978, after 55 days of captivity.
The morning Moro was kidnapped, he was on his way to Parliament to savor what was to be his defining achievement: the compromesso storico, a plan to bring Italy’s Communist Party into a governing alliance with the Christian Democrats in order to promote national stability. It was a controversial move, opposed bitterly in Washington and elsewhere as a violation of the cardinal rule of post-war Italian politics: to keep the Communists out of power.
Massacre of The Dreamers and The Imitatio Maria
Posted on Mar 17, 2008 09:49am CST.| El Rio Debajo El Rio: The river beneath the river, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés | |
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A meditation for Holy Week and Easter
If one were to cease dreaming bold dreams, then bold and much needed actions on earth would also cease, for dreams are the primary fuel for the engine of doing. If it cannot be dreamt, it cannot be done. Thereby, protect rather than pre-empt the dreamer in your own soul.
Massacre of the dreamers
In our family it is said, that once, long ago, Moctezuma, cacique, chieftain of Mexico, in or about 1519, had been hearing constant rumors about pale-skinned warriors descending fully armed from the east coast of Mexico. Moctezuma, uncertain what to do or believe, sent for all tribal dreamers from all villages across the empire.
